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Institute

Institute (institute)
p. a.(***ibreve]n"st***ibreve]*t1913 webster dictionaryt)
In"sti*tute
p. a. [L. institutus, p. p. of instituere to place in, to institute, to instruct; pref. in- in + statuere to cause to stand, to set. See Statute.]
  1. Established; organized; founded.
    [Obs.]

    They have but few laws. For to a people so instruct and institute, very few to suffice. Robynson (More's Utopia).

Institute

Institute (institute)
v. t.(***ibreve]n"st***ibreve]*t1913 webster dictionaryt)
In"sti*tute
v. t. [imp. *** p. p. Instituted (- t&umacr]`t1913 webster dictionaryd); p. pr. *** vb. n. Instituting.]

  1. To set up] to establish; to ordain; as, to institute laws, rules, etc.
  2. To originate and establish; to found; to organize; as, to institute a court, or a society.

    Whenever any from of government becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government. Jefferson (Decl. of Indep. ).

  3. To nominate; to appoint.
    [Obs.]

    We institute your Grace
    To be our regent in these parts of France.     Shak.

  4. To begin; to commence; to set on foot; as, to institute an inquiry; to institute a suit.

    And haply institute
    A course of learning and ingenious studies.     Shak.

  5. To ground or establish in principles and rudiments; to educate; to instruct.
    [Obs.]

    If children were early instituted, knowledge would insensibly insinuate itself. Dr. H. More.

  6. To invest with the spiritual charge of a benefice, or the care of souls.
    Blackstone.

    Syn. -- To originate; begin; commence; establish; found; erect; organize; appoint; ordain.

Institute

Institute (institute)
n.
In"sti*tute
  1. The act of instituting] institution.
    [Obs.] "Water sanctified by Christ's institute." Milton.
  2. That which is instituted, established, or fixed, as a law, habit, or custom.
    Glover.
  3. Hence: An elementary and necessary principle; a precept, maxim, or rule, recognized as established and authoritative; usually in the plural, a collection of such principles and precepts; esp., a comprehensive summary of legal principles and decisions; as, the Institutes of Justinian; Coke's Institutes of the Laws of England. Cf. Digest, n.

    They made a sort of institute and digest of anarchy. Burke.

    To make the Stoics' institutes thy own. Dryden.

  4. An institution; a society established for the promotion of learning, art, science, etc.; a college; as, the Institute of Technology; also, a building owned or occupied by such an institute; as, the Cooper Institute.
  5. The person to whom an estate is first given by destination or limitation.
    Tomlins.

    Institutes of medicine, theoretical medicine; that department of medical science which attempts to account philosophically for the various phenomena of health as well as of disease; physiology applied to the practice of medicine. Dunglison.













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